family weekend and celebration of the birthday of my mom

Saturday afternoon around 14:00 my uncle Hans and his wife and two kids Tynke and Sven arrived at my parents house. when they arrived we eat some applepie that my dad has made and drink some coffee and tea and talked. in the evening my brother richard and his girlfriend and their small dog pooky arrived at my parents place and the aduls went to play this card game while me and my causin Tynke were playing mario kart on the wii for a while. later me and my causin we went out to the swing night till 02:00 than my mom picked us up. sunday morning when we had all together breakfast my mom brought me and my causin Tynke to the fitness and we did a body combat lesson for an hour and than my mom and my aunt reina picked us up again and we drunk some coffee and tea at the fitness and than left back home. back at home we started to play this card game "pesten" not that later richard arrived with his dog pooky and he joined the game too and some hours later my brother albert and his wife and two kids arrived so we finished the game. me and Tynke decided to go to the playground nearby with Sven, Stef and Lars. at the playground the boys were playing for a while and than some friends of lars came to the playground so they started to play soccer for a while. me and Tynke were talking and playing with Sven and watching stef and lars as well. some hours later we were tired and cold so we all went back home to my parents place and we started to eat diner all together. after diner they all left back home. i only stayed at my parents house till 21:30 and than i left back home too and i was very very tired so i felt a sleep but it was a great and fun weekend with my relatives :-)and my mom had a great sunday afternoon birthday celebration.

7 hills run

Sunday morning i woke up at 7 and got my running clothes together and put in a bag and put on my running shoes. got outside with the dog and feed him than i went to my parents place. my mom was ready too so my dad brought us by car to the train station. at 09:25 marleen and martin arrived at the train station and some minutes later the train arrived we stepped into the train till deventer there we had to switch train to nijmegen. around 11:00 we arrived in nijmegen centre and we first saw where we can get our t-shirts with the logo of the 7 hills on it we bought. when we had that we went to the dressing room to get dressed into our running clothes than we went to find a cafe/restaurant to have something to eat and tea after that it was time to get to the start. the black 1 was starting at 12:30 martin was in black 1 and me, my mom and marleen were in black 3 so martin told us to start with the black 1 so we did. We had to run 15km it was a hard race and a lot of climbing and hills :-( around the 4km i felt like throwing up but at the 5km we had a water post so i drunk some water and than i felt well again so i runned till around the 8km than i got pain in some muscles and it got harder than the last 4km was very hard and some parts i just walked. i had some moments that i thought i'll give up and sit down but i did not. i had a time of 1hour and 49minutes so that was good for me :-) and at the finish i got a medal :-) well up to next year run.

familie bezoek in Hoogkerk

this morning i woke up at 7 and got ready eat breakfast while my mom went for a small walk with my dog. when she came back she gave the ginepigs something to eat and i gave my dog something to eat and checked his water when i did that i took my bag and went off to my parents house across the street. around 9 we took off by car to hoogkerk nearby groningen and around 11 o'clock we arrived in hoogkerk at marian and her husband's house. we were one of the first and not that much later nikki and her husband matt arrived and after my uncle hans his wife reina and their kids tynke and sven arrived too. before the lunch the daughter of marian Tamara and her younghest son darwin came by too meet us too. we talked, laughed and had fun all day long and had lunch together.sven and darwin played together with the toys first they were both shy but later they were each others friends :-) later tynke took out her nintendo ds and showed some games so i played a few games on it and started to like the nintendo ds and the games on it and my mom played on it too for a while :-) around 16:30 everyone left back home so at 19:00 we arrived home and i went to my house to go outside with the dog and gave him something to eat than i went back to my parents house to eat something and after diner i took off back to my home and went to watch some tv and felt asleep on the couch. but it was a fun day.

nightmarathon & kennedymars haaksbergen

Friday evening the nightmarathon (42km) and kennedymars (80km) started again. i looked forward to it already a long time. every year i join the nightmarathon 42km together with my mom. the nightmarathon and kennedymars always starts at 22:00 in haaksbergen at the bouwmeester. we all walk through the night. the nightmarathon has to be back the next morning at 9:00 in the bouwmeester in haaksbergen and the kennedymars will be back at 18:00 together with the daymarathon that stated at 6:30 in the morning. when you made it you get this medal afterwards :-) its every year a big event and a lot of people join the walk :-) i started the nightmarathon when i was 13 years old that was my first time :-)

Family day at the zoo in emmen

Yesterday Jantien (a relative of my mom's site) and her boyfriend Dietmar came over by car and spent one night at my house. when they arrived around 21:35 we talked a little and i showed my home to them than we got ourselfs ready to go out to the city. we first had a drink in the 2 wezens (thats a cafe) and after we went for a while to the rits (a party cafe) where we met some of my friends so we talked a little and left back home around 02:00 back home and went to sleep.
This morning we woke up at 07:30 and got ourselfs ready at 09:00 my parents, my brother richard, me, jantien and dietmar left by car to the zoo in emmen where we had a meeting with some more relatives of my mom's site who we have never met so it was the first time we have met each other. when we all got at the entrance of the zoo we went insite and first talked with each other and went around telling who we were and had a cup of coffee and/tea together. after that we all left to see the animals at the zoo the whole group kind of broke up so i watched the animals with my uncle Hans, his wife Reina and their little boy Swen. the younghest daughter of hans my causin Tynke have watched the animals with my parents and brother and not that much later the eldest daughter Froukje and her boyfriend joined my parents and brother too. the last two hours we went through the zoo together my parents, uncle, aunt, my brother, sven, tynke, froukje and her boyfriend and me together. at 16:00 we all have met again and made a group picture together and had a drink together and than most of the people left back home. it was a really fun day and we had a very good weather the sun was shining all day :-) so up to next family day.

playing with my nephews :-)

This afternoon at 16:00 i took my bike and went over to the house of my eldest brother to play with my nephews on the playstation. when i arrived we started to play this game fifa07 it's a football game suddenly my eldest nephew wanted to play another game so we played the rest of the time this game spider-man and his friends at 17:00 my brother albert arrived of his work and we all eat diner together spinace, patatoes and meet and a small desert ofcourse after diner we played some spider-man and than my eldest nephew had to get ready for his swimming lesson well he already got a, b and c and now he learns to get faster and more swim tecknic. i'll tell you my nephew was really one of the fastest swimmer in his group :-) so i'm real proud of him ofcourse. when we got back home my youghest nephew came down to say goodnight to me and than he had to go to sleep and me and my eldest nephew we got back to the spiderman game and finished the level 2 :-) than he had to turn the playstation off and we played finding nemo on our game boys for 5 minutes and than at 20:30 he also had to go to sleep cause the next morning he had to go to school. well it was a nice afternoon even i had this terrible headache it was still really fun to play with my nephews.

visiting my brother, his wife karen and their kids

At 19:30 my parents came to pick me up and we walked together the house of my brother albert and his wife karen. my father walked ahead so my mom and me walked together. stef walked from his house to my mom and i so when he reached us he told us he had pain in his neck cause he has fallen at friend's house and he cried when he felt and his mom picked him up and he went to the doctor and the doctor told him to rest for some days. well when we arrived at albert's and karen's house went inside and sat down on the sofa and first got drink some coffee and tea. stef, lars and me went to play games on the playstation like avatar, a spiderman game, fifa08 and star trek episode III while my parents, albert and karen were going to play this card game called klaverjassen. at 20:30 lars had to go to sleep so we said goodnight. At 00:30 my parents, albert and karen were finally finished the card game and stef and me played all evening games on the playstation....aaahhh. well i like to play games on the playstation with my nephews :-) its always fun.